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Home Tag Archives: Border wall

Tag Archives: Border wall

Biden’s movable wall is criticized by environmentalists and those who want more border security

By Michael
November 13, 2023
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Biden’s movable wall is criticized by environmentalists and those who want more border security McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement. The plans for the nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) of new barrier …

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Biden’s movable wall is criticized by environmentalists and those who want more border security

By Michael
November 13, 2023
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Biden’s movable wall is criticized by environmentalists and those who want more border security McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement. The plans for the nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) of new barrier …

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US courts rule for border walls both public and private

By Michael
January 10, 2020
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Crews could start building a private border wall in South Texas within the coming days following a federal judge’s ruling Thursday that lifted a restraining order against the project. U.S. District Judge Randy Crane’s order was the second federal ruling in two days in favor of border barriers. On Wednesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …

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What crackdown? Migrant smuggling business adapts, thrives

By Michael
December 20, 2019
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HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — The heavy-set man swept through a curtain into the reserved area of a nightclub as his bodyguard stood nearby. In the darkness, he agreed to talk about his business: handling the income from smuggling migrants across a 375-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border. “We control all the territory” along the frontier with Arizona, said the cartel …

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What crackdown? Migrant smuggling business adapts, thrives

By Michael
December 20, 2019
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HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — The heavy-set man swept through a curtain into the reserved area of a nightclub as his bodyguard stood nearby. In the darkness, he agreed to talk about his business: handling the income from smuggling migrants across a 375-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border. “We control all the territory” along the frontier with Arizona, said the cartel …

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Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall

By Michael
July 26, 2019
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the greenlight to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for the projects had been …

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Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall

By Michael
July 26, 2019
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the greenlight to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for the projects had been …

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City issues cease-and-desist order for private border wall

By Michael
May 28, 2019
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SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — A border suburb of El Paso, Texas, has issued a cease-and-desist order against construction of a privately funded border barrier. A spokesman for Sunland Park, New Mexico, said Tuesday that the barrier being erected by We Build The Wall Inc. on private property doesn’t comply with city ordinances. City spokesman Peter Ibarbo says the company …

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OPINION: State leaders more concerned about soundbites than protecting the border

By Michael
May 9, 2019
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The situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. In times like these, one’s character is revealed, which is why the response from New Mexico’s political leaders is so disheartening. The headlines this past month have been alarming. More than 650 people crossing the border were taken into custody in just a couple hours during the early morning …

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New Mexico to sue Trump over emergency wall declaration

By Michael
February 19, 2019
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico plans to join other states in suing President Donald Trump over his emergency declaration to fund a wall at the U.S. border with Mexico, the state’s Democratic attorney general and governor announced Monday. Trump says immigrants are invading the country and has declared a national emergency to bypass Congress to use money from …

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